And some people want to learn about the culture of food as simple as bread with cheese or the omelet that I make every morning. Ethnographers study this by exploring the history and characters behind each dish. Rouzanna Tsaturyan believes that people use food to speak about anything—be it politics, gender issues, history, societal changes, revolution, or even fashion.
Food is the crossline that unites everyone or that entices foreigners to appreciate other cultures. It enables us to enter a different reality and understand the people, the society, and the community around us.
Armenian culture is gastro-centric. Any occasion, be it happy or sad, has associations with food. Accordingly, the My Armenia Program MAP , which is actively developing cultural tourism in Armenia, has been trying to position traditional Armenian cuisine as a popular tourist attraction and Armenia as a gastro destination.
Many MAP experiences present the historic and cultural heritage typical of a given location and use local residents to provide the experience and to prepare the dish in their own distinctive way—even if it is traditional Armenian tolma , lavash or barbeque.
For instance, one family in Goris makes tolma, but with Goris bean leaves. Visitors to their restaurant which is called Loby Goris, translated as Bean Goris , may experience not only the preparation and tasting of tolma but also a greater understanding of beans and their cultural significance in the local community. A clay pot containing layers of pilaf with emmer wheat, along with potatoes and tomatoes from Sisian, goes into the very same oven where the owners make their clay pots.
Exactly who is getting mistreated? I live in Glendale and i can say just one thing Stay out of here!!! Most of the teens in here are "wannabe" gangsters, they start some crappy fights at school "maybe to show off" HAHAHA, you forgot to mention that the vast majority of those "flashy" and "expensive" cars are salvage title, i. He claims to be born in Glendale and hates the fact that Armenians have taken over Glendale. So, shut the hell up and go back to where ever your great grandfathers were kicked out of since they were bunch of pirots.
Now for the Asian lady who think Armenians stink, Lady, stop using Garlic so much cause I can smell you all the way down here already behind the computer in Thousand Oaks. For all you folks who think Armenians have done a bad dead in Glendale, look around you?!?! I grew up in Chicago and moved to Glendale in There was not even a tall building except the Security Pacific Bld!!
Now, do you realize that they have dumped all their money in your community? They have build up your community and in return, the White Beverly Hills mil. So, my suggestion to the garlic lovers and the idiot who was crying about his mom and dad being kicked out of Glendale because they could not live with the Armenians, GREAT, move out!!!
Originally Posted by GlendaleMan. At night you will hear the singing fountains in Republic Square splashing and dancing while dangling your feet in the refreshing spring water. Around the corner, a group is clapping and tapping their feet to a busker with an accordion. I feel my heart sink to the melancholic music at the Genocide Memorial. Tuning in we hear the untold story of incredible sorrow, of resilience and eventually hope.
Afterwards, the silence in the taxi is deafening. At Geghard Monastery we listen to our souls vibrate. Completely hewn from the side of a mountain, the church chamber has extraordinary acoustics. Take a deep breath and exhale with a hmmm. Soon it feels as if the whole chamber is vibrating, first in through your ears, and soon into your body where it will find your soul. At the altar, the priest reverberates to a different frequency.
How and where do we even begin? Trying to use words like appetizing, delectable, exquisite, heavenly, delightful, delish, mouthwatering is futile. Thank you Thesaurus. Armenian food and drink are out of this world and is the highlight of our trip to the Caucasus.
For us to travel is to eat, and Yerevan quickly became one of our favourite places because of the food. The food in Armenia is an experience in itself. We are not sure whether it was the paper-thin lavash bread, the roasted meat skewers, the cheese, the use of fresh herbs, the amazing fresh fruit, the crisp dry white wine or the unique Armenian pizza which got us hooked. Point is we love the flavours of Yerevan. Fresh fruit, especially berries, apricots, peaches, grapes and pomegranates are beautifully displayed at every corner shop.
All of these are also made into kompot, wine and brandy. Do not leave Yerevan before having a meal at the outstanding Lavash restaurant. Let me repeat that: Do not leave Yerevan before having a meal at the outstanding Lavash restaurant. It has a wonderful atmosphere, the service is friendly and the food is outstanding. Eat here — you can thank us later.
Armenia is one of the oldest wine-producing regions of the world together with Georgia. Okay, perhaps these situations exist everywhere. Perhaps you can encounter this same incident with the clerk and the cheese wherever you go. It may be considered a cultural phenomenon shared by other countries in the region. But I have nevertheless seen this happen on several occasions here. I have seen people prepare food, such as the relished kebab sandwiches served as fast food that can be found at kiosks in most metro stations, with a cigarette dangling from their mouths.
It may be a hygiene issue and not one pertaining to logic. This logic carries over to other spheres as well. In politics, an overwhelming number of citizens are dissatisfied with their public servants. Rather than assembling to protest or form political movements with the aim to bring about necessary changes in their societies, they sit at home, complaining to one another that the government should do more and is simply corrupt, impotent from providing the programs and services that taxpaying, law-abiding citizens expect.
The logic in this case is that nothing can be done to enact change, because no matter who serves in the government, they will manage to abuse their power, and that the status quo will remain.
Therefore, it is pointless to do anything, since nothing beneficial will come out of it. I will continue touching upon this subject, provided with additional examples, as this entry is indeed the first part of an ongoing series.
My favorite "logic" is waiting in lines in Armenia. When it comes time to pay a bill, one goes to the post. And everyone is everywhere. So you decide to stand behind people who are semi-formed in a line right?
Turns out there are like 5 people in front of you and you didn't even know it. Hahaha that's because they do not have the ability to wait in the line itself and ask the last person who does wait to "save his or her spot". Then there are times when people just don't wait in line at all. Let's say you walk in and are waiting to purchase something. You wait curteously for the person before you to finish and figure the person behind the counter will ask you next.
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